This is an analysis of the poem Out Of The Night That Covers Me that begins with:
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded fbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10011101 11010101 11110110 1110001 00110101 11111101 10010001 11010101 01010111 11010001 11010000 11111101 01011101 11010001 11010011 11010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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